Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Hundreds of participants from over 10 countries at the webinar series organized by DeL UPT through Accelerate Future HEI
Politehnica University of Timișoara (UPT), through the Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education (DeL), successfully organized a series of two free international webinars dedicated to the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education and research. The events took place within the framework of the European project Accelerate Future HEI – „Entrepreneurial & Innovative Universities Acceleration Programme” and brought together hundreds of […]
UPT projects inspire the international community: Nokia Bell Labs VR application, developed through the European project Accelerate Future HEI, presented at IEEE DEMOcon 2026
Timișoara, June 2026 Politehnica University of Timișoara (UPT) continues to reconfirm its status as a leader in innovation and digital education through strategic partnerships and active participation in large-scale European projects. An example of good practices in this regard is the Nokia Bell Labs Virtual Reality application, a successful student project developed […]
UPT's digital transformation, presented at IEEE DEMOcon 2026: How the European project "Accelerate Future HEI" supports institutional transformation
The Politehnica University of Timișoara, through the Department of ID/IFR and Digital Education, hosted for the first time, from June 24 to 26, 2026, the IEEE DEMOcon 2026 International Conference on Digital Education and MOOCs — organized by the IEEE Education Society and which, this year, merged with eMOOCs, the European Summit of MOOC Stakeholders. The conference […]
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Hundreds of participants from over 10 countries at the webinar series organized by DeL UPT through Accelerate Future HEI
The events took place within the framework of the European project Accelerate Future HEI – "Entrepreneurial & Innovative Universities Acceleration Programme" and brought together hundreds of participants from over 10 countries.
European Museum Night 2026 at the UPT Museum: Hundreds of visitors discovered history with the help of technology and experimented with state-of-the-art applications alongside the DeL UPT team
The DeL and CM teams offered dozens of guided tours to the participants, who discovered MECIPT-1 – the first computer in the Romanian university environment. Alongside it, visitors could experience the latest virtual reality and mixed reality applications, developed by UPT students and faculty within the Spotlight Heritage Timișoara project.
AI in Education and Research – A Series of Free Webinars organised within the HEI Accelerate Project
UPT, through DeL, within the Accelerate Future HEI project, invites you to explore how artificial intelligence influences education and research in the university environment, within 2 free webinars, supported by Dr. Eng. Diana Andone, director of DeL.
The third issue of Ezines – Accelerate Future HEI has been published
The third issue of the e-journal Accelerate Future HEI is now available. The edition presents concrete results of institutional transformation in European higher education, with a focus on strategic planning, mentoring and common policies at the level of the European Research Area.
Hundreds of participants at the Open Education & Science Practices Workshop 2026 UPT
Main theme: the response of educational and research systems to the challenges brought by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), virtual reality and blockchain.